Putting the Snap in the Jab

Practise.

 

A post from Saddoboxing

"Take a small towel, hold it in the hand you Jab with, and snap it 100-200 times, do it as long or as many times as you feel is necessary. I do 100-200 depending how sore I am or whatever, but my trainer came up with this and I thought it was a great idea, the purpose is to get your hand back to the position it started as fast as possible, and in order to make the towel snap you have to bring it back faster than you sent it out. It works the same muscles and it’s a great Idea. Try it"

 

Or to see if you're sharp before a fight, have your pad man hold up loosely a page of a newspaper & if you jab it right it should snap in half, think kostya tszyu has a video bout it on YouTube

 

This looks amazing, I'm going to try this out later

 

Sometimes it takes the opposite to find a spectrum.


In soccer you have:

Strength of weaker foot =

Frequency of weaker foot =


In boxing you have:

Power of jab =

Frequency of jab =


If I could find the Haye/Oquendo clip I could better explain it.

 

you can work different drills on a heavy bag. One that I do sometimes is

Jabs:

10 sets of 1
10 sets of 2
10 sets of 3
10 sets of 4
10 sets of 5
on up to 10 sets of 10 jabs


then I go into sets of cross
10 sets of 1
10 sets of 2
on up to 10 sets of 10

 

This might be totally wrong and counterproductive for you, but it works for me. Also, if you have a vid of yourself jabbing there's a few coaches on here who could identify the problem. OK:

Watch Vitali Klitschko jab. It's like he's taking something out of his pocket. It's a whip motion that ends right at the point of impact and just blasts your face back.

One way I've heard of describing it is putting that extra '**** you' into the punch. whip it over and dig it in at the end, try to twist the guy's nose off or rip out his eyeball. That'll mean leaving the punch out longer, maybe even too long. But from time to time it can be useful, and it makes him respect your weaker jabs because they look the same. Kind of like a change-up in baseball, or cricket if you're ghey.

Or you can throw a hard jab by pushing through off your back foot. You need to have your weight properly distributed for this (a coach could show you). It won't be snappy but it'll be like spearing him in the face with your jab and entire bodyweight behind it, and he won't like it.
I like the towel and newspaper ideas.

 

A hard, quick jab should come straight off your shoulder, like a snake striking, and return to starting position.

SNAP!

That being said, the jab can be used a lot of different ways.

In some cases, you throw it to damage and I push off with my rear foot just before the punch leaves my shoulder.

In other cases you want to flash it out there, to make the opponent move, dodge, put their hands up so you can go to the body, etc.. in those cases, its all about speed and the power comes from the snap on the end of it.

Still, other times you just want to stick it out there to impede their visibility or back them up if they are rushing you.

I throw it slightly different in each of those situations.

 

make sure when you jab (or punch for that matter), that you don't fully clench your fist until just before the moment of impact. That really gives it a snap, and also gets you to the target quicker. Took me aaagges to get that right, but after lots of practice, I finally got it.

 

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGLREiLDH0[/ame]

 

Keep yourself relaxed, and keep your shoulders relaxed. Pop the jab out, and bring it back in to the guard, straight out, straight back. Don't rush it, practice it a lot in front of the mirror and then work onto the bag. When you're not getting the power you want then you're probably getting frustrated and tesning up too much, making it even weaker.

 

How long have you been boxing?

 

Great advice.:happy